As GamePoliticsreported on Monday, Brandon Crisp, a 15-year-old Canadian gamer, went missing more than a week ago and has not been located.

According to this morning's Toronto Star, Brandon's parents have expressed to police that they believe his disappearance may be related to what they term an "addiction" to the popular, online-playable FPS Call of Duty 4. Brandon's father, Steve Crisp is quoted as saying:

I'm worried he has met someone online through this game. It could be organized crime or someone involved in Internet gambling. Pedophiles can stalk kids through these games.

While it is certainly true that there are documented cases of sexual predators using online video games to locate young victims, Steve Crisp's speculation regarding organized crime or Internet gambling seems a bit far-fetched. Perhaps understandable, though, given the stress which he is under. Certainly, one would expect that the local police are working with Xbox Live to examine any messages between Brandon and other players. They are probably examining his PC as well.

Also unclear is the exact CoD game that Brandon was supposedly addicted to. The Star report includes these passages:

[Brandon] left home following a dispute with his parents over the Xbox online war game, Call of Duty 4, which he spent countless hours and days playing over the last 18 months...

"He has a good heart," Steve said of his son, who was a straight-A student until his obsession with gaming started in 2006. The boy purchased Call of Duty with Christmas money and Steve subscribed to Xbox online at his son's urging.

Call of Duty 4, however, was not released until November 5 of last year. Previous games in the series were released for Xbox 360, so, given the stressful circumstances, it's an understandable mistatement.

Anyone with information on Brandon's whereabouts is urged to contact the Barrie Police Department. A Facebook group, Where is Brandon Crisp? has over 5,600 members so far.

GP: A reporter from the Globe and Mail asked me yesterday whether the gaming community, using online resources, might be helping in the search for Brandon. It's very possible.

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The biggest issue to blame I personally believe is 'communications' between parent and teen.

I can honestly speak from experience being a Mum of three teens myself. We all have to remember that parenting does not come with a handbook and at the end of the day we are all human and subject to making mistakes.

The biggest challenge I face as a Mum is the little things that we don't see called hormones, but they create such a huge impact in life when growing up. Why is that you can bring your children up and teach them the right from wrongs, respect, etc... but they get to a certain age and everything they have learnt seems to fly out the window!

What I have learnt is once children become teens and their hormones are raging, they are in fact going through their own inner battle of the transition from child to adult, including expanding on their communication skills and creating their own little social networks where they feel comfortable. It is a perfectly natural stage within this cycle where suddenly they seem to shut out their family and spend very little time as part of that unit.

The biggest challenge I find is trying to stimulate a conversation where the answer you receive from your teen is more than a neanderthal ug!

It is a part of growing up and I'm sure if we looked back on our own teenage experiences at one time or another we all rebelled against our parents in some hurtful way. It didn't mean we didn't love them it's just a case of trying to find yourself without adult interference!

This case is so incredibly tragic. It's all over the news. As far as we can tell, it's a case of parents struggling to figure out there son's compulsive gaming habit, and ultimately taking away the console. The situation escalated and the boy ran away from home.

Some of you may know I live about two hour away from suburban Toronto where Brandon vanished. I've been asked to comment on this situation on a radio call-in show that's syndicated across the province of Ontario this Sunday, October 26. We're all praying for this boy's safe return, but it doesn't look good.

And yes, Jack Thompson should keep his enormous mouth shut. Neither The Law Society of Upper Canada nor the Canadian media have any more interest in his legal opinion than you or I do. Believe it or not Jack, the provincial police force in Ontario have a world class cyber crimes unit that doesn't need your posturing or B.S.

I think when you're to the point of packing the bag and saying 'Well, son, I'll see ya when I see ya' you're in parental negligence turf.

And has this made the regular media outlets yet (CNN, NBC, etc)? That'll be a double edged sword: on the one hand, it gets the information out to the public (even if this kid is in Canada, cant hurt) so more people know about it. On the other, it's 'Video games made a kid run away! We have special guest Jack Thompson in the studio to give us the facts!'. I guess I could do with a little more gamer bashing if it means a kid isnt being burned with a crack pipe in the slums of Montreal (or something, I dont know, Canada isnt my bag) and gets home (or probably into custody of the state) safely.

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The sad fact is, it's probably more likely that this kid has committed suicide than that he's been stalked online by a predator. The notion that online predators use games has been shown to be a fallacy.

1. You tell us to remove posts about you fearing gay people. SInce you just called Denis a faggot basher, I deem it proper to label you a closed closet cased retard who's afraid of being touched by a guy.

2. Wheres the proof? If I call up microsoft and find out that you been lying, than that makes you even more of an idiot than before.

3. Weren't you banned already? You know you could get in a lot of trouble if you keep coming back opening your mouth aorund here with those who run the site as far as I know. Keep it up.

I found the quote hilerous. Yes, of course organized criminals, paedophiles and online gamblers all use CoD4 to recurit/mollest/badger people, that's totally not a reactionairy viewpoint from someone who is perhaps a tad hysterical.

The biggest problem I see with the father's story is why, if he was so concerned about the dangers of the internet, was he paying for his son's XBL account...especially considering the amount of time his kid was playing these games?

I suppose it might be easier to blame video games than take responsibility for being a shitty parent...

"I'm worried he has met someone online through this game. It could be organized crime or someone involved in Internet gambling. Pedophiles can stalk kids through these games."

and that my friends is why PARENTS should be active in their kids activities especially online.

I.E. a simple thing like being in the room when he's playing online and/or at least keeping the voice comm active in the TV speakers where it can be heard could've helped the parents... i dunno... KNOW of the people he was "meeting" online?

my parents always stressed if i EVER considered meeting someone i met online ALWAYS bring a friend and ALWAYS be in a public place.

as it should be when meeting almost anyone for the first time. adhere to the simple rules of life and its really not that hard to get around. After all i met mah lady love online, and all cause her fave game was Vice City.... should i have been worried she was some chainsaw carrying phsyco that was luring me in so she could slash me up just because of this?

i doubt it, but we still met in a public place, though i was outta luck on bringing anyone she had her family there, and i had my military training, though little it may be, with me.

hope they find'em though, its never a good thing when anyone goes missing no matter how old they are.

if i prayed i'd pray for his return, but for now most i can do is tip me hat and say good luck.

The best advice I could give is if this kid is truly an addict then treat him like one. Look for him first in local places where he might play or hide out when he can't play. Expand it to include the nearest big city. Considering he's 15 he may have hopped on a bus which means depending on how much money he had he could be anywhere in the US or Canada. Get his info out to the international news media. Distribute his handle to the major gaming companies (blizzard, ign, etc) and get info on similar handles across various similar kinds of games. Focus on CoD forums. Get them to post the kid's information. Get people who know the kid into forums he frequents and get them to leave messages asking him to come home.

But other than that there are only two things gamers can do to really help. The first thing we can do is tackle it from the larger issue of runaways. When you talk to people and they hint that they have problems at home or that they could have run away just encourage them to get help and to go home. Get gaming sites to promote the larger runaway problem and encourage their communites to reach out to kids with problems and get them help or get them to go home. Let's face it this kid isn't the only runaway gamer out there.

The other thing would be for all of us to appeal to our higher powers whatever that may be on behalf of all runaways. And/Or (if the higher power isn't your thing) call the major news outlets and ask them to run stories on this kid and on runaways in general to help bring up awareness.

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As far as I'm concerned this isn't a run away case. The kid, in anger, said he would leave their home, but it was the father who packed his bags and gave him directions too, so his father threw him out thinking he was smart and teaching his son a lesson. Well, when he son didn't come back he got worried and started blaming everything else except for the real culprit, himself. The father is to blame here, in my opinion. If your kid makes a threat like that, you don't try to call their bluff by packing their bags and telling them the best ways to get to where they want to go. I mean, I'd hate to see what this dick would have done if his son threatened to kill himself. I could see it now, "Oh yeah?" his father would say while handing him a handgun and showing him how to work it then follow it up with "Knock yourself out." That's just shitty parenting, and I refuse to accept this bullshit con-artist's claims that it was somehow the fault of the video games or someone luring his son away when he clearly kicked him out!

Posted my thoughts at Mammon. This doesn't seem like the kind of thing I should restrict to a comment, yknow? Maybe it's just because it hit close to home; I've got family near Barrie myself, and I recognize the kid's attachment to gaming from the same feelings I had when I was his age. (The fact that he's got the same hair and eye colour as me is off-putting, too.)

A very interesting read serrenity. I came across this post this morning which I thought explained the differences very well between an addict and fan.

Video games like Call of Duty pull teens in, allow them to do things they couldn’t do in real life and give them a mental and physical high, says a University of Toronto lecturer on video game design.

“There are some teens, especially around the mid-teens, some have absolutely no life outside the game. It almost becomes unhealthy,” said Steve Engels.

Brandon Crisp, 15, left home Thanksgiving Day after his parents cut him off of Call of Duty; he has not been seen or heard from since.

Brandon’s parents, Steve and Angelika Crisp, said the game interfered with his sleep and they feared it would impact his school work; St. Joseph’s Catholic Secondary School principal Matt McCann said Brandon was a good student, without attendance issues, until he left home over a week ago.

The biggest hole in this story is that if the kid plays as much as they claim he does - he wouldn't have run away without easy access to his feed his gaming addiction. I'll start this off by claiming that I am not a psychologist, but being as my mother is a drug and alcoholism psychiatric specialist in addition, I feel like I had a little more insight than the average person (in addition to having attending NA/AA meetings with my mother since I was about 10).

Anyway, if we operate under the assumption here that the parents are telling the whole truth and that the child was addicted to video games - he would not have left home without 1) Taking the enabler of his addiction with him (the xbox itself) or going to place where he would have unfettered access to feed his addiction. If you look at addicts who run away from home for Drugs (note the run away; being kicked out is a different scenario) , they typically do so for easier access to feed their addiction. That is to say, he would be online on his gamertag (as has been stated), and it stands to reason that MS would be all over this, looking to keep a good public image.

So, were this the case and the police thought that in fact, he did leave to have easier access to his addiction, you can bet that MS could falling all over itself to comply with law enforcement for the potentially positive PR. The potential for negative is there, but the benefits outweight the risks. Almost all ToA and Privacy Policies include an article about assisting law enforcement. XBL is no expection to this.

So, if he left for gaming and feeding his addiction, there would definitely be an audit trail that any Law enforcement official worth his salt would be all over. So, if that line of inquiry came back null - I think it's fairly easy to say that he either 1) didn't leave to feed a gaming addiction or 2) Left for a gaming addiction and something happened between leaving the house and obtaining his fix.

The other potiential for this is that the parents either exaggerated his gaming addiction, or made it up completely to explain why he ran away. At first glance, this makes more sense to me because he left his main access to feed his addiction behind, something no addict does willingly. So if he ran away, I would say it was for other reasons that perhaps the Xbox situation just exacerbated, or the "straw that broke the camel's back." mentality.

As it stands, I only have with the media presents (always bias), but I find 2 things very concerning about the situation. 1) the Father claims to have helped his son pack his backpack to run away. That strikes me as odd given the alleged fervor at which the boy played games and the alleged depth of his addiction. One of the biggest things with addicts is that you should never call their bluff because they are typically not thinking clearly anyway and are more likely to do somethign rash. 2) if gaming was that much of a detriment to the child, why is the father so clearly clueless about gaming, and gamers in general. If he had these concerns about gaming (with pedophiles, gamers as generally evil people), why did he let his son play these games for not just months, but YEARS (since 2006).

I agree, something doesn't sit with me right about this case. We are missing some key piece of the story here that the parents clearly aren't being open about. (Not at all implying they harmed their son in anyway, just that we are looking a small piece of the picture instead of the whole story).

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I'll start this off by claiming that I am not a psychologist, but being as my mother is a drug and alcoholism psychiatric specialist in addition, I feel like I had a little more insight than the average person (in addition to having attending NA/AA meetings with my mother since I was about 10).

Kudos to you. I'm not going to bother commenting on the rest of your post (other than saying I agree), but i would like to point out that even if you went just because your mother took you, it's nice to see others attending such events. People need to realize there are such a thing as open meetings where you can go even if you don't have a problem just to observe. I think if more people did that then we'd see a lot less of "Well they're just weak minded people!" garbage

I agree on all points, Serrenity. I also think that there might be more to the story than what we currently know. Hopefully, this will turn out all right...like the "Runaway Bride" case a while back. We can only keep searching and praying for now.

Additionally 'strange' point, is that according to the sources this was an original xbox with ww2 themed COD game (must be COD : finest hour) .. Why would any kid be addicted to that now? seems odd that the kid was a hardcore 'gamer' addict if he's choosing to play that... cant be COD4.. not out in 2006 :S

is there even an online community / microsoft servers available for COD: finest hour??? it was released in 2004! and is the only COD game on original xbox. i thought the official servers long stopped being supported for an original xbox game sucgh as that?

and even if they were still going, WHY would a peadophile be playing a 4 and a half year old game with virtually NO userbase to look for victims.. makes NO sense.

if we can confirm the servers are shut down, and we can confirm it was allegedly an original xbox and finest hour, then we KNOW somebody is lying.

and as you said earlier.. if he was addicted (and lets face it.. to still be playing a game released in 2004.. you must be REALLY seriously addicted) .. why the heck would he LEAVE his apparent 'addiction' and run away??

Did everyone notice the part about the father helping him PACK his backpack to run off? O.O ARE YOU SERIOUS?!?! WTH?!?! So it's the games, organized crime, etc to blame for his son's behavior not the parenting???? Wow... Sorry but I'm gonna have to say that more than his "gaming habits" were to blame here for this situation. A kid, no matter how spoiled, doesn't just leave for over a week because his Xbox was taken away.

I'm very sorry that this family is going through this, however their son would return faster if they'd just admit to their own shortcomings rather than continually blaming the situation on EVERY OTHER FACTOR around them.

I own a 360, but lack an xbox live account, I Hope this boy is found alive and safe, If worse comes to worst..its JT to blame for causing constant interuptions in the search, Im going to check the Xbox sites and see anything about players/members logging in and stuff.

Hope you guys help find the kid, Hope the teen is safe, We dont need Necrophillacs like JT trying to start random BS on TV or the Web.

Wow, when I originally read that story on here I had no idea this was happening so close by. Barrie, Ontario is just a couple hours away from me. As a neighbour and a fellow CoD4 player, I will definitely have my eyes peeled for this kid.

you know what the best solution is to this? Lets ignore JT and concentrate on ways that we can help , if in any small way whatsoever, to find this kid.

That actually may do something useful, and at the same time proves JT more wrong about us gamers than any witty comeback ever could. By replying to him here we are clogging up any useful information that may bubble to the surface with needless drivel. We know hes a liar, no need to prove it. Lets get on with figuring out ways to help.

Your desire to assist the police in this matter is comendable, but I fail to see, short of providing insight into where this young man may have gone, what you could provide as "useful". Furthermore, your contention that Microsoft is worried is a bullish accusation. This is a parenting issue hands down. The father helped his son pack the knapsack he left with, as well as gave him directions to the area in which he wanted to go. I understand that there is such a thing as calling a bluff in poker, but I wonder how many would gamble with their child's well-being in such a manner. You leave your emotions at the door when gambling, and this was a scenario when emotions were the prevailing wind. however, the parents should not be our focus at the moment. Locating this young man is a touch more important than any agenda you or I might have in this matter.

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Xbox live chat logs are not recorded, unless done through a specific set up (i.e. routing them through your computer or other audio device plugged into an audio system). The IM's are much more likely to be recorded and stored, therefore a good place to start. However, signifigantly more information can be transferred through voice, so the likelyhood of the data being in an e-mail is slim. Furthermore, some clans/guilds have websites to post accomplishments and post dates for specific events. Does his clan have one, if so, what is on it, and hunt down the webmaster to hand over any data on communications (I apologize if I sound a bit vauge, the operations and maintenance surrounding websites is greek to me at the moment). Further interpersonal communications could be found there, as well as his standard e-mail. Check his brower and cookie history to see if he has an e-mail account that his parents may not know about, and if he has visited any sites that might be verboten or otherwise give insight into why the father might believe

Disseminating his gamertag is a gamble. If done online, lord knows what the immature gits of the wild will do. In missing person cases the probability of success drops each day the person is missing, and I do not believe that the police have adequate resources to deal with the deluge of information that they will receive. Local coverage, and dissemination of data into the surrounding counties would be a valid first step, however telling Japan, Florida, and the greater part of England that a young Canadian boy has gone missing, sadly, invites pranksters and bad data on a global scale vice a localized amount of information. Contacting everyone on his friends list and any IM contacts that do not match the buddy list. Scan his e-mails for the like, and root through the cell for recent texts and phone calls. All pretty standard stuff.

I am going to make two assumptions at this point, 1) he has/had a cell phone on him, and 2) the police have already pinged it. If that were the case, the would know where he was on October 13th, I am aware of the time deficit, but cell companies could be given the ESN and told to see if the phone pings on any of their networks. If no cell was available to the young man, then disregard.

I understand that the parents are concern, their fear is reaching a point of irrationality, hence the comment about online gambling, the mob, or pedophiles. They are, most likely, feeling guilty of the confrontation, and want closure because they, in part, are feeling responsible for his departure. Furthermore, there is a natural inclination to blame others during this time. It is a rationalization technique used when stressors become too much for an individual. Hence the lashing out. However, it should be noted that I am not a clinical, or otherwise certified psychologist. I am simply making data points based on analysis of similar cases. Also, considering my slight paranoia, I would have the parents' phones run as well, location history if available, and check out some stories. If they are innocent, they have nothing to hide. It is not being cruel to grieving parents, it is part of a rational investigation, and that is what we are being asked here.

Notably missing is information regarding the site in question, and for potentially good reason. Tread marks, boot prints, draggings, etc. would indicate a struggle, or at least give some sort of identification. If the boy hopped into a passing van because it was getting cold, then the field has expanded exponentially. The bike was found on a path (my Canadian is bad, so is that a dirt road or a jogging/hiking/biking path in a park). After a quick run through google earth, yes my resources are limited so I am making due with what I can get my hands on, the area appears to be a decent stretch of road on the outskirts of the city with little on it, and that is a little disconcerting. Horror films are made of such stuff.

We take the position that the worst case scenario has occured, however I have serious doubts that Russian mobsters, this would be the internet gambling ring, are freely roaming around the Canadian countryside looking to pick up 15 year old boys on a bike. Granted police do not have alot of contact information on registered sex offenders (I am familiar with American law, but unsure as to Canadian standards), but a quick visit/phone call would be more than sufficient.

That is how I would start.

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The bike was found on a walking trail that goes along the "2nd line of Oro". Lines in Oro are apparently rural roads that connect to Highway 11, Ontario's longest provincial highway. So it's entirely possible that he hitched a ride to well... anywhere. Although it's likely "anywhere in Canada", because if he was trying to head towards the US, he was going the wrong way.

They also have a witness who claims they saw him walking, not biking, on that path, so for whatever reason, he decided to ditch the bike and continue on foot.

UPDATE: The witness was a woman who spoke briefly with the lad, and he said he had trouble with his bike.

Man I hope everything turns out O.K., hopefully it'll be like the runaway bride where he's perfectly fine (although it can't be exactly like that because he's a minor who isn't allowed tro run away). Best of luck with your search. I deon't have an Xbox so I can't look for him signing on. Oh well.

Oh and as stated earlier it wouldn't be wise to instantly suspect the parents when you're not involved in the investigation.

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[quote]GP: A reporter from the Globe and Mail asked me yesterday whether the gaming community, using online resources, might be helping in the search for Brandon. It's very possible.[/quote]

As soon as I saw this story on Monday I placed your report on both the Official Infinity Ward and Treyarch company boards titled **Attention** Young CoD Gamer Missing! It has also been posted in the fan CoD community boards I frequent.

I have also contacted FourZeroTwo the Community Manager for IW and included links to your report asking if he could put a shout out to the xbox360 community. Not being an xbox gamer myself I am unaware as to whether he has made an announcement within that specific group of gamers but again I shall send him the link to this page.

Our thoughts are with all of the family and we hope that Brandon turns up safe and well!

Release gamertag and step up police searches in his predicted movement route. If we had his tag, we might be able to find a alias he's been using. However I don't believe this will end well, he's been missing more than 10 days, and up here in the North we are starting to dip well below freezing at nights. Unless he's met someone who's determined to either shelter him from the media, or keep him secret, it's possible it's already to late.

4chan once helped a guy get his stolen xbox back. Maybe anonymous will help find the kid. I haven't been there in a good long time, so there's a good chance it's fallen into an even lower circle of hell, but at this point it wouldn't hurt to try.

Release the kid's gamertag and other information online. Gamers want this kid found, and they'd be a usefull ally right now.

I have just spoken with the Sergeant who is leading the investigation to find and rescue this young man.

I gave him what he said was useful information that he did not have.

He also told me that he is getting a lot of crap from "video gamers" who are upset with any assertion that the game might have something to do with his disappearance. He said that "The game has EVERYTHING to do with his disappearance, and we are working with Microsoft on this chief aspect of the case."

Microsoft is extremely worried, and it should be. And gamers ought to be ashamed of themselves for hassling this police department for following the chief lead that they have. How typical of gamers to try to thwart legitimate law enforcement efforts to try to rescue or help yet another victim of your favorite irresponsible industry.

"How typical of gamers to try to thwart legitimate law enforcement efforts to try to rescue or help yet another victim of your favorite irresponsible industry."

What are you talking about? You post a freakin' random lie to every post that makes your whistle blow off. One would say with as much free time you have, you'd go out and try to get a job. Another. Again.

How typical of Jack Thompson to try and make a name for himself long beyond the blatant display of his incompetence, lack of professionalism and downright lack of common sense.

A truly friendly tip ; stop trying to do what you failed, are failing, and will fail to do. The industry beated you, accept it, and move on. That's all part of life as far as I know.

*walks down the street and continues talking with an unnatached broken reciever in his hand*

' yes.. yes.. that APA says that the best defense from the lobster people is to cover yourself in your own doody! *sniff * *twitch*yeeaarrhHhh hoo haaa!'

*camera zooms in on his crazed bulging eyes, excremement smeared like camo paint on his cheeks*

' Theyre turning the wheels i tells you.. THE wheels!! And we all know what that means. What? no, im not telling you, you dont know what i know! Ive already contacted the president and he has given his full support! no, i DONT have that in writing! the lobster people wont stop, the video game industry was their way to infiltrate society *sniff * *twitch*yeeaarrhHhh hoo haaa!'

*ducks into a nearby alleyway*

'What. No.... ive got to go. The industry has this handset BUGGED! bugged with devices from the 20th lobster dimension in the year 7337. The CERN experiment.. THAT was Them opening a worm hole.. *bah* a LOBSTER- hole!!, no im NOT crazy, im a modern day saint, a 'Paul revere' for the 21st century, im warning you of incoming danger!'

*throws down handset, puts pants onto his head, secured by his belt, and runs off down the the alleyway shouting, 'The lobsters are coming.. the LOBSTERS ARE COMING!'

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